Blizzard Discusses StarCraft

<p>In an interview <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;kotaku&period;com&sol;5919333&sol;blizzard-says-starcraft-on-wii-u-might-work&quest;utm&lowbar;campaign&equals;socialflow&lowbar;kotaku&lowbar;twitter&amp&semi;utm&lowbar;source&equals;kotaku&lowbar;twitter&amp&semi;utm&lowbar;medium&equals;socialflow">Kotaku<&sol;a> held with <em>StarCraft II<&sol;em>&&num;8216&semi;s lead designer&comma; Dustin Browder&comma; the designer discussed what it may be like having StarCraft on other consoles&period; When quizzed about whether the title could work on Nintendo&&num;8217&semi;s upcoming console&comma; Wii U&comma; he stated &&num;8220&semi;If I can control a cursor on the television with my hand on the touchscreen&comma; that might be able to work&&num;8230&semi; &lbrack;but&rsqb; because of the hotkey scenario&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s not like players actually play <em>StarCraft<&sol;em> with the mouse only—they play with the mouse and keyboard&&num;8230&semi; We obviously allow new users to play mouse-only and that&&num;8217&semi;s really fun&comma; but when you get serious about the game you do move into the mouse and keyboard space&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When asked about the possibility of porting <em>StarCraft<&sol;em> to other consoles&comma; Browder went on to say&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Every now and then we do have people show us things&period; Or we will see demos to kinda dip our toe in the water and say&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Is this real yet&quest;&&num;8217&semi; But we&&num;8217&semi;ve never been able to convince ourselves&period;&&num;8221&semi; When speaking of a controller&comma; he remarked&comma; &&num;8220&semi;It needs to match a very high quality level for control for us to consider a <em>StarCraft<&sol;em> move in that direction&period; Again&comma; if there is enough there&comma; totally we could make a port&period; And if there&&num;8217&semi;s not enough there&comma; it still might be exciting to do a whole new title&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He later mentioned that whilst Blizzard isn&&num;8217&semi;t developing <em>StarCraft<&sol;em> on another console&comma; we should never say never&period; &&num;8220&semi;We haven&&num;8217&semi;t seen the system that we felt we could easily do it&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Browder added&period; &&num;8220&semi;And that&&num;8217&semi;s not to say that some day we won&&num;8217&semi;t make a really special effort to get it done&comma; cause it certainly would be exciting&period; We&&num;8217&semi;re just not there yet&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lpar;Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;kotaku&period;com&sol;5919333&sol;blizzard-says-starcraft-on-wii-u-might-work&quest;utm&lowbar;campaign&equals;socialflow&lowbar;kotaku&lowbar;twitter&amp&semi;utm&lowbar;source&equals;kotaku&lowbar;twitter&amp&semi;utm&lowbar;medium&equals;socialflow">Kotaku<&sol;a>&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;